US Department of Labor recovers $50K in back wages, damages for dishwashers, cooks at Indiana cantina

Summary:

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division investigated Toremac LLC, operating as Papi Chulo's Cantina and other restaurants, and found willful violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime and record-keeping provisions. The company paid back-of-house employees a salary for all hours worked without paying overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek and failed to record daily work hours. As a result, the company paid $50,566 in back wages and liquidated damages to 30 employees, and an additional $35,610 in civil money penalties for willful violations of the FLSA.